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1) Together with the ref[erent] I consider cert[ain] qu[estions] to be of historical interest.

2) I "placed myself outside the p[arty]"... It is incorrect that the Soviet refused to convene a congress 4 III – 6 III. We did not know officially what the congress w[anted]. 7)
— "Placed outside the p[arty] to recognize" = to exclude.
"Do not dare." | Not frightening, but laughable are these words. —

3) Representation at the c[ongress]. 46 — Vor[onezh] — Nik[olayev] — North-W[estern] — Cauc[asian] Union.
Report of the Cauc[asian]
2 + 2 + 2
c[onf]er[ence]
10 = 6
+
{ + 2 from C.C.
in
half
____ Sov[iet]
disputed 10).
Protest against
| Te]
"usurpation". 46 – 12 = 34
--------
In 2 = 71.
In V2— and not one
member of the Soviet.
+ 5 m[emb]ers of Soviet.
"Stride over
Formally - captious
points__
Throw out points of the statute,
which
were deliberately
devised to complicate unification."
The ref[erent] took our decisions as the basis...
"Misunderstanding of Marxist views"...
"Elementary truths, they say, are precisely despised by opp[ortunists]." [Millerand— on class
str[uggle].] "Crit[ique]" from Kautsky's Agr[arian] q[uestion].

j "Insurrection is not a technical q[uestion], but a so-
| c[ial]-polit[ical] q[uestion]".

"Not a M[arxist], but a Bl[anquist]"...
"Agit[ation]" etc. has no relation to insurrection 11).
Technically, mechanically, arithmetically.
"Radical review of all our activity"...
"Rev[olutionary] clubs" * 12).
Resol[ution]
on open
speech
contradicts
the Statute.
M[aybe] it would be good at the III c[ongress] about an 8-h[our] w[orking] day. (In the Isp[ra] it was the same too.)
Agr[arian] q[uestion].
Peasant c[ommittees] exist in Our L[ife] Ch
Peasant C[ommittees] understood narrowly
against
the ref[erent's] understanding.

"Expanded meaning."
Temporary government. "One must equate" 13) [Disagree with the ref[erent].]

"Fetishization of the idea of the Temporary G[overnment]."
"Unleashing rev[olution] = not allow it to stop = "prob-
ably, they say, everyone understands th[is]" = of the process of rev[olutionization].
"Too av[enturist] and it would not hurt the proletar[iat]'s development of the rev[olutionary] pr[ocess]"... 14)

The comparison with m i l l e r a n d i s m remains in force.
f At Parvus only utopia 15). In Vperer[ed] — particip[ation]
<J in alliance with rev[olutionary]-b[ourgeois] <) [dem-
ocracy]. (Even more distrust of the M[enshevik]s...).
At Vperer[ed] it follows that one c[an] be in the M[enshevik]s in government.
It would be good if we add[ed] what to demand
from the b[ourgeois] temp[orary] gov[ernment].
Str[uggle] against the so-c[alled] social[ist] provocation.
"Samara" ?? 16)
Their resol[ution] is vague and murky —  unwillingness under any circumstances.

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EEE = "irresolute toward Vperer[ed]".
|= step backward = ! . . .
"genuine unity"?
Org[aniz]at[ional] q[uestion]. More difficult to reconcile
disagreements___

"Good decadent painting" 17) . . . good paths actually at the III c[ongress] "classical painting", but there is no life. They have [more] finished!
We have n o t h i n g except l o c a l c[ommittees]"... C.C. was always a fiction... (the ball was flying over)...
"Where to Begin" 18) [build from all sides]
it is incorrect that we gave rights only to regional c[ommittees] — but also the III c[ongress] and the grass roots.
? (we have an introduction)

[blessing.
Oversight № 10 19).
1)
Need free technical [sections]
group — better
than guarantees.
Khark[ov] gr[oup] Vperer[ed] in relation to the Kh[arkov]
C[ommittee]. The same, they say, will act.
.... |
"Lenin became more opportunist" [regarding the center]........
| It is not quite so that they subordinate foreign countries to Russia 20).

b u i l d f r o m a b o v e d o w n w a r d the org[anizat]ion or from all sides*)

*) On the reverse of the last page of the manuscript Vladimir Ilyich has numerical calculations not related to the report.
Prices (r. 14 of tailoring route).
Lausanne— Paris = 26 os.
Double course = 41.70
*
Gen. Laus. MO
5.20 4570
29Л25
Deadline
day
double
course??
Lenin Miscellany. V

*) Secret — secret, not subject to publication.
2) Coup d'etat — state coup. Lenin intends his disagreement with the delegate Kamsky (Obukhov), who said that the proposal to give the decisive vote to the committee of foreign organizations and parallel groups is both in substance and in form a coup d'etat. (Protocols, p. 101 and 105.)
3) Lenin has in mind Plekhanov's article "On the Question of the Seizure of Power". ("Iskra" No. 96.) (G. V. Plekhanov. Works, vol. XVII, p. 203.)
4) Lenin has in mind the speech of Maksimov (Bogdanov).
5) By resolution of the congress the question of the relations of workers and intellectuals in social-democratic organizations was postponed until the adoption of the party statute, and the floor was given to Maksimov (Bogdanov) for the next report.
6) The Voronezh representative — Filippov (Rumyantsev) submitted a resolution very restrained in relation to the new-Iskra-ists. The conciliator — Mikhailov (Vadim — Postolovsky) said: "Do not refuse to win over workers' organizations and wrest the Mensheviks' influence on them from them". Lenin's exclamation after these words: "Long live the conciliators". (Protocols, p. 408.)
7) The delegate from Samara Kramolnikov proposed to pass a general resolution about Socialist-Revolutionaries and liberals.
8) In connection with the arrival at the congress of conciliators from the C.C. Nikitich (Krasin) and Mark (Lyubimov), Lenin said: "More joy over one repentant sinner than over 99 righteous men".
9) The resolutions in question are: 1) on recognition of the merits of "Vperer[ed]" and 2) on the appointment of "Proletarii" as the central organ.
10) Martov objected against the correctness of representation at the congress, disputing 12 votes.
11) Martov treated with particular passion that place in Lenin's report where Vladimir Ilyich spoke of the impermissibility in revolutionary times of marking time and reducing all political tasks to pedagogy. Martov accused Lenin of forgetting the basic elementary tasks, the tasks of propaganda and agitation.
12) Lenin asked how it is that clubs among the Mensheviks are classified as "unformed organizations".
13) Lenin in his report criticized the Mensheviks who equated the participation of social-democracy in the temporary revolutionary government with the participation of Millerand in Waldeck-Rousseau's ministry. Martov insists on the legitimacy of such an equation.
14) Martov put forward as one of the arguments against the participation of social-democracy in the temporary revolutionary government the danger that this step would hinder the further "unleashing of revolution".
15) This refers to Parvus's slogan: "without a tsar, but a workers' government".
16) When the resolution on the 3rd congress was put to a vote, the Samara committee entered a dissenting opinion of two committee members, in which the fear was expressed that in the event that "Iskra" leaves the congress, the Bolsheviks might not be able to oppose "Iskra" with their sufficiently authoritative Central Organ. ("Vperer[ed]" No. 14, from March 30, 1905. In the section "From the Party" P.S. to the resolution of the Samara Committee.)

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17) Criticizing the resolution of the Menshevik conference on the organizational question, Lenin said approximately the following: the Mensheviks' talk about unformed broad, spontaneous organizations reminds me of one painting. In a mad whirlwind spin the Malyavin women, skirts flutter, wealth and brightness of colors strike the eye, and a completely arbitrary transition from one to another. Under this picture one would want to write: either a dream, or unformed organizations. Lenin was probably referring to Malyavin's painting "Laughter", which was awarded a prize at the Paris exhibition in 1900. Martov's objection to Lenin was approximately as follows: the organizational constructions of the Bolsheviks at first glance are closer to classical painting than to decadent pictures. The proportionality of the parts is observed, their paragraphs are fitted together like the hands and feet of wax figures in wax museums. One trouble is — these wax figures look very much like corpses, there is no life in them. (Memoirs of comrade Kramolnikov.)
18) In Lenin's article in No. 4 of "Iskra" "Where to Begin" it was said about the necessity to begin building the party from all sides simultaneously.
19) Lenin emphasized in his report that the 3rd congress gave constitutional statutory guarantees to the minority in the party. Martov, for refutation, cited § 10 of the Statute adopted at the conference. (Appendix to Protocols, p. 544, § 10 note).
20) Martov joked about the fact that formerly foreign countries were, they say, for Lenin a synonym for squabbling, and now Lenin himself, having become responsible editor of a central organ located abroad, will not be particularly insistent on the subordination of foreign writers to the Russian Central Committee.
